by Michael Bayne | Feb 6, 2013 | children's ministry, family ministry, small group
The past few years at our church we have been asking a pretty difficult question in how are we serving families with special needs kids? It’s an issue that Chelsea, my wife, who is a former special education teacher has helped us work through. I wish I could say...
by Michael Bayne | Aug 14, 2012 | change, children's ministry, family ministry, leadership, youth ministry
Numbers, we love them and hate them. When they are going up we celebrate. When they are lower we go into evaluation mode. When we talk about the ministries we lead we tend to mention them to our friends. Numbers are a factor for all of us but they can never be allowed...
by Michael Bayne | Jul 31, 2012 | children's ministry, family ministry, leadership, youth ministry
The best part about the Olympics is that they only happen every four years. Seriously, what makes the Olympics great is that there is such a large gap in between the games. The gap in between games gives us time to actually look forward to these 2 weeks. The space in...
by Michael Bayne | May 31, 2012 | children's ministry, free stuff, production, youth ministry
Here is a great tool anytime you need to download a clip from YouTube or Vimeo. Check out this website http://savevideo.me/ if you want to make sure you next video clip is ready to use in your environment. We use several different tools here at our office for this...
by Michael Bayne | May 23, 2012 | children's ministry, free stuff, youth ministry
Summer is coming and I’m sure you are all looking for different games for your different summer events. Hope to be able to share a bunch of these this summer that we do in our children’s and student ministry. Here is one we did called the Sing Off....
by Michael Bayne | May 22, 2012 | change, children's ministry, leadership, multi-site, youth ministry
We live in a culture where “big” seems to matter the most. People want big important jobs. People love living in neighborhoods with big houses. We love the big city with lots of buzz. We love to talk about our big goals and big plans. If you are in...
